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Nicholas Guyatt

@nicholasguyatt

I teach American history at Cambridge. Opinions strictly personal; for sober & authoritative tweeting consult @Cambridge_Uni, @CamHistory & @JesusCollegeCam

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Every American historian uses this image to teach students about 'manifest destiny' and ethnic cleansing, but I would guess that most of us didn't imagine that the US government would unironically reclaim it in the twenty-first century